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Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund  (CEPF) is a global program that provides funding and technical assistance to non-governmental organizations and other private sector partners to protect critical ecosystems. They focus on  biodiversity hotspots , the Earth's biologically richest yet most endangered areas. World Wide Fund for Nature The  World Wide Fund for Nature  ( WWF ) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961, working in the field of the wilderness preservation, and the reduction of humanity's footprint on the environment. It was formerly named the  World Wildlife Fund , which remains its official name in Canada and the United States. It is the world's largest conservation organization. Currently, much of its work focuses on the conservation of three biomes that contain most of the world's biodiversity: oceans an...

Nearly one lakh migratory birds have reached in manmade  Maharana Pratap Sagar Lake or Pong Dam. Most of these birds migrate every year to this lake in the month of October and continue to arrive till February.  These birds fly from trans-Himalaya region of Tibet, Central Asia, Russia and Siberia. This time also birds like Bar Headed Geese, Pintail and Common Pochard in thousands can be seen flying over the lake area. Maharana Pratap Sagar , also known as  Pong Reservoir  or  Pong Dam Lake  was created in 1975, by building the highest earthfill dam in India on the Beas River in the wetland zone of the Siwalik Hills of the Kangra district of the state of Himachal Pradesh. The reservoir or the lake is a well-known wildlife sanctuary and one of the 25 international wetland sites declared in India by the Ramsar Convention. The Pong Reservoir and Gobindsagar Reservoir are the two most important fishing reservoirs in the Himalayan f...